Considerations and best practices for interoperability with PATROL components

3.1.00

Yes

Monitors the Citrix XenServer environment and resources.

Provides a detailed view of all system activity over time so that you can detect problems, optimize systems, analyze trends, plan capacity, and manage multiple hosts simultaneously. It includes the following features:

• User-defined metrics using the agent-level composite monitor
• Custom parent instance hierarchy

PATROL for Microsoft Windows Server

5.1.10

Yes

9.13.20.05

Yes

• Unix and Linux - HP-UX and Linux
• Unix and Linux - Solaris and AIX

Monitors the UNIX and Linux operating system environments. Monitoring includes various parameters that provide statistical information about resource utilization, operating status, and performance of your environment.

PATROL for VMware vSphere (also supports VMware vSphere 6.0)

4.0.20.01

Yes

VMware vSphere

Monitors VMware vSphere environment. Monitoring includes the following components of a configured VMware vSphere environment:

• Datacenters
• Clusters
• Hosts
• Virtual machines (VMs)
• Resource pools
• VMware vApps
• Datastores

Monitors the iSeries operating system environments remotely. Monitoring includes various parameters that provide statistical information about resource utilization, operating status, and performance of your environment.

Monitors the AIX operating system environments locally and remotely. Monitoring includes various parameters that provide statistical information about resource utilization, operating status, and performance of your environment.

Monitors the Solaris operating system environments locally and remotely.

Enables you to monitor the Oracle Virtual Machine Manager (OVM). It collects performance statistics of the Repositories, Oracle VM Servers, and VMs. 

2.9.10

No

2.7.40

Yes

3.0.00

Yes

• Monitors network devices based on Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) data collection or ICMP (PING). 
• Monitors ports and DNS servers

Collects monitoring data from multiple hosts and to allow you to perform complex analysis and statistical planning on all monitored activity.

Monitors the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Managers. Monitoring includes the following components of a configured RHEV environment:

• Data centers
• Clusters
• Storage domains
• Hosts
• Virtual machines (VMs)

Note:

To upgrade to PATROL for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 1.2.00, you must install PATROL for Linux KM version 1.2.00. 

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization KM is now a part of the PATROL for Linux KM version 1.2.00. 

Monitors the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager environment. Monitoring includes the following components of a configured Virtual Machine Manager:

• Host Groups
• Clusters
• Hosts
• Virtual Machines

Monitors Linux hosts and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Managers.

Linux monitoring includes monitoring of the Linux OS parameters, local and remote Linux host monitoring, and Kernel-based virtual machine monitoring.

RHEV monitoring includes the following components of a configured RHEV environment:

• Data centers
• Clusters
• Storage domains
• Hosts
• Virtual machines (VMs)

• Operating System
• Tablespaces
• Sessions 
• UNDO usage
• Services
• Pluggable Database 
• Pluggable Tablespace 
• Users 
• System
• Jobs
• Custom query 
• Standby health 
• Listeners
• Wait events
• ASM 

Monitors the performance metrics of the configured Elasticsearch host. Monitoring includes the performance metrics of the Elasticsearch Cluster, Nodes, JVM, Indices, and Shards. It also provides filtering and failover functionality to assure high availability of performance metrics.

PATROL for Oracle

9.7.11.02

Yes

Monitors the Oracle database. Monitoring includes the following components of your Oracle installation:

• Archive log activity
• Automatic Storage Management
• DataGuard failover monitoring
• ETSM
• Failover and Cluster Monitoring Scenarios
• Instance performance and health of the environment
• Local and remote monitoring
• Oracle instance
• Oracle server options
• Oracle Net
• Oracle pluggable instances
• Resource availability and capacity
• Replication and Oracle jobs
• Real Application Cluster monitoring
• Users
• XML Log monitoring

PATROL for Microsoft SQL Server

9.6.30

Yes

PATROL for Sybase

20.02.00

Yes

Monitors the Sybase software products. Monitoring includes the following products:

• Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
• Replication Server
• Adaptive Server IQ (IQ Server)
• SQL AnyWhere

Monitors the MongoDB database. Monitoring includes the following components:

• Monitoring longest running operations
  
• MongoDB Shard routing service
• Sharded cluster
• Database health
• Replica Set and Replica Set Member

PATROL for Oracle WebLogic

3.1.00

Yes

Monitors the Oracle Weblogic Server environment. Monitoring includes the following Weblogic components:

• Server
• Cluster
• JMX MBean

PATROL for IBM WebSphere Application Server

3.1.00

Yes

Monitors the IBM WebSphere Application Server environment. Provides capability to perform the following:

• Application monitoring with JMX
• Application Server monitoring
• Dynamic Cache
• Enterprise Java Bean
• High Availability Manager
• Service Integration Bus
• Thread Pool
• Web Service
• WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Edge Server and WebSphere Proxy Server monitoring

PATROL for BMC Server Automation

8.2.00.02

Yes

Monitors the performance and status of BMC Server Automation. Monitoring includes the following aspects of performance:

• Job execution
• Status of managed hosts
• Application server status (memory, CPU, etc)

PATROL for Entuity Server

2.0.00

Yes

PATROL for SAP HANA provides the following features:

• Monitor alerts by severity level
• Direct tenant connection
• Performance and health monitoring
• Detailed annotation messages
• Create custom SQL queries

Supports the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform and includes the following features:

• Monitoring of Applications, Events, and Components
• Enabling or disabling monitoring of individual entities
• Filtering capabilities -
  • Include or exclude Applications based on Organization, Space, and Application name 
  • Filter events based on Event type, Actee name, Organization name, and Space name

Allows you to write a script in the language of your choice, use the script to discover instances and collect performance metrics and send it to the TrueSight Operations Management.The KM gives you the ability to add additional data collection without having to understand or write PSL.

Monitors your configured Docker environment. Components monitored:

• Docker hosts
• Docker containers
• Docker swarm

Monitors the Hadoop environment. Monitoring includes the following components of a configured Hadoop environment:

• DataNode
• NameNode
• JobTracker
• SecondaryNameNode
• TaskTracker
• JobHistory
• NodeManager
• ResourceManager

• JournalNode

Monitor the performance and status of the Collection Agents. Provides the following capabilities:

• Collects high volume and high variety of machine generated data
• Collects local application log files for monitoring (via Collection Agents) 

PATROL for Citrix XenApp

2.0.00.01

Monitors Xen applications and desktop. Monitoring includes the following components of a configured Citrix Site:

• Delivery Controllers 
• Delivery Groups 
• Machines belonging to Delivery Groups (Server OS machines / Desktop OS machines)
• Published Applications
• License Server
• Machine Catalogs

Monitors synthetic transaction response times from BMC Synthetic Transaction Monitoring. Provides the capability to perform the following:

• Integrate the synthetic end-user experience monitoring into BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management 10.0
• Configure BMC Synthetic Transaction Execution Adapter (TEA) Agent in the BMC TrueSight Central Monitoring Administration console
• Raise intelligent alerts and incidents to the service desk for resolution.
• Produce historical performance charts and status views

PATROL for JBoss Application Server

3.2.00

Yes

Monitors runtime application server availability and performance of:

• JBoss resources
• Servlets
• Oracle JavaServer Pages (JSPs)
• Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs).

PATROL for Microsoft Exchange Servers

6.1.01

Yes

PATROL for SAP Solution Manager ²

2.3.01

Yes

PATROL for Remedy AR Server

2.0.00

Yes

PATROL for Real User Cloud Probe

2.5.00

No

PATROL for Internet Server

9.0.40

Yes

• BMC PATROL for Web Services 9.0.30 (discontinued starting version 11.3.06)
• BMC PATROL for Web URL 9.0.30
• BMC PATROL for Web Transaction 9.0.30
• Web Transaction Capture Utility 9.0.30

Monitors and manages internet servers including servers supporting Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption, across a distributed environment from a centralized console.

Note:

BMC PATROL for Web URL, BMC PATROL for Web Transaction, and Web Transaction Capture Utility have been updated in 10.5.01 repository release.

BMC PATROL for Web Services KM does not support configuration from the Central Monitoring Administration and the TrueSight console.

N

PATROL for Oracle Database Remote tools

9.7.00

No

Hardware Sentry KM

10.1.01

Yes

Monitors the hardware of almost any server (physical, virtual, and blade servers) that composes a datacenter.

Components monitored:

• Critical Devices
• Environment
• Disks
• Network Links

Dell Compellent KM

1.3.00

Yes

Enables SAN administrators to monitor their entire Dell Compellent infrastructure within their own BMC TrueSight Operations Management environment.

Components monitored:

• Storage centers
• Controllers
• Battery
• Fan
• Memory
• Power Supply
• Ports
• Temperature
• Voltage
• Disk Folders
• Disk Classes
• Disks
• Volumes

Monitors the availability, performance, and capacity of Dell EMC Unity storage systems.

Components monitored:

• CIFS and NFS Servers
• Controllers
• Ethernet and FC Ports
• Fans
• File Systems
• Physical Disks
• Power Supplies
• Storage Pools
• Storage System
• Volumes

EMC Storage KM

4.2.00

Yes

Monitors critical performance and hardware data and enables SAN/NAS Administrators to be warned whenever a problem occurs in their EMC environment.

Components monitored:

• Disk Arrays
• Controllers
• Disk Groups
• Fiber Ports
• Physical Disks
• Storage Pools
• Volumes
• Control Station, Data Mover, DM Ethernet Ports, Filers, File Systems and NFS Servers (for EMC Celerra storage systems only)
• Hardware components: batteries, fans, power supplies

Monitors the availability, performance, and capacity of EMC XtremIO storage systems in BMC TrueSight Operations Management.
Components monitored:

• BBU
• X-Bricks
• Cluster
• Controllers
• DAE
• InfiniBand ports
• Local Disk Drives
• Physical Disks
• Ports
• PSU
• Volumes
• Management Servers

HP EVA Storage KM

1.3.00

Yes

Enables SAN administrators to monitor, collect and display key performance data and business-essential metrics. As part of the Sentry Software Storage solution HP EVA KM for PATROL covers performance counters while Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL collects hardware-related information.

Components monitored:

• Disk Array
• Controllers
• Physical Disks
• Virtual Disks

Monitors your IBM XiV storage systems and displays all the critical information concerning data and interface modules, disks and volumes directly in your BMC Framework.

Components monitored:

• Storage systems
• Storage pools
• Volumes
• IBM XiV KM for PATROL can also generate activity reports on a daily or weekly basis for storage systems, storage pools, volumes, and physical disks.

IBM SVC-Storwize Storage KM

2.1.00

Yes

Monitors the availability, performance and capacity utilization of IBM SVC-Storwize. It automatically discovers the topology and configuration of the IBM SVC-Storwize Cluster monitored, including the nodes, FC and iSCSI ports, MDisks, Storage Systems, and volumes. Volume mirroring is also monitored to make sure both copies of the volume are properly synchronized and thus guarantee data integrity and recoverability.

Components monitored:

• Nodes
• FC ports
• iSCI ports
• Pools
• MDisks
• Storage Systems
• Volumes
• Volume Mirroring

NetApp Storage KM

3.3.04

Yes

Monitors all of the performance metrics and hardware health information of your NetApp Filers. It continuously monitors the activity of each filer and is also able to build reports on past utilization statistics.

Components monitored:

• Array activity statistics
• Files System monitoring
• Per-protocol statistics 
• Mirroring reports
• LUN and Volumes Statistics

EMC NetWorker KM

3.1.00

Yes

Integrates the monitoring of EMC NetWorker into the BMC systems management environments by reporting on key areas such as server availability, log file sizes, pending media events.

Components monitored:

• Server availability
• Log files
• Pending Media Events
• Bootstrap Messages
• Client Indexes
• Devices
• Save Groups and Save Sets

Veritas NetBackup KM

3.2.00

Yes

Monitors your Veritas NetBackup application within a centralized management console to ensure its runs efficiently 24 hours a day.

Components monitored:

• Server availability
• Jobs
• Log Files
• Robotic libraries and drives
• Disk storage and volume pools
• Catalog database
• Client

IBM Spectrum Protect

3.1.00

Yes

Automates backup monitoring and improves the backup success rate.

Components monitored:

• Jobs
• Server and Storage Agent availability
• Internal server processes
• Server database and recovery logs
• Storage pools
• Libraries and drives
• Client

Hitachi Disk Arrays KM

1.5.00

Yes

Monitors all your Hitachi storage assets within a centralized management console.

Components monitored:

• Disk arrays
• Storage pools
• Controllers
• Storage Volumes
• Ports

IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 Series Storage KM

1.2.00

Yes

Monitors all the software aspects of the array (overall capacity, spare disks, data traffic, over subscription and so on).

Components monitored:

• Subsystems
• Disk Array
• Controllers
• Logical Disks

IBM DS6000, DS8000 Series Storage KM

1.3.01

Yes

Enables SAN administrators to manage their IBM storage assets from centralized management platform.

Components Monitored:

• Storage Units
• Extent Pools
• Ranks
• Storage Volumes
• Ports

Veritas Volume Manager KM

3.0.00

Yes

Monitors and manages Veritas Volume Manager disk groups, volumes, plexes, subdisks, and the raw devices they rely on. It provides metrics on the reliability and performance of the disk arrays controlled.

Components monitored:

• Storage media
• Internal server process
• Devices and volumes
• Volume Manager logs

Veritas File System KM

3.0.00

Yes

Provides metrics on the reliability and performance of monitored file systems.

Components monitored:

• File system
• Internal server process
• Quotas and Kernel messages for reported warnings and errors

Veritas Cluster Server KM

3.0.00

Yes

Veritas Cluster Server KM for PATROL (or VCS KM) helps you ensure that your Veritas Cluster Server installations run efficiently 24 hours a day.

Components monitored:

• Systems
• Heartbeats
• LLT & GAB
• Resources & Service Groups
• Logs
• Agents
• Automatic KM Failover

Monitoring Studio

9.4.03

Yes

Enables you to monitor almost any technology (application, server, device, etc.) for which there is no out-of-the-box monitoring solution. The KM does the following:

• Monitors processes
• Launches and analyzes commands or scripts
• Sends queries to a database back-end
• Monitors and analyzes files
• Monitors file systems
• Monitors folders
• Monitors other KMs
• Monitors Windows performance
• Polls SNMP agents and listens for SNMP traps
• Executes and analyzes WBEM queries
• Sends requests to a web front-end
• Monitors Windows events
• Monitors Windows services
• Executes and analyzes WMI queries
• With Monitoring Studio, you will also be able to process the multi-line content, 
  perform string searches, extract numeric values and monitor dynamic return outputs.

Monitors all your HP 3PAR storage assets within a centralized management console.

Components monitored:

• Hardware
• Environment
• Data traffic and I/Os
• Storage resource availability and utilization

The HP 3PAR KM can also generate activity reports on a daily or weekly basis for storage systems, nodes, ports (Ethernet, FC, SAS), storage pools, volumes, and physical disks.

Monitors the availability, performance, and capacity of Pure Storage systems in BMC TrueSight Operations Management.
Components monitored:

• Chassis
• Controllers
• Fans
• I/O Modules
• NVRAMs
• Other Devices
• Physical Disks
• Ports
• Power Supplies
• Shelves
• Temperature Sensors
• Volumes

PATROL for Middleware and Transaction Management

8.0.01

Yes

Monitors your technology and applications using the concept of transaction pathways.

PATROL for Apache Tomcat and Generic Java Server

3.1.00

Yes

Key features in PATROL for Kubernetes 1.0.00:

• Dynamic discovery of Kubernetes Cluster entities
• Monitors the following entities:
  • Cluster components
  • Cluster nodes
  • Cluster controllers (Deployment, ReplicaSet, DaemonSet, and StatefulSet of the cluster)
  • Cluster workloads
  • Provides filters for cluster namespaces
  • Provides device mapping of monitored entities
  • Provides detailed annotation messages
  • Provides simple configuration

Monitors the Google Cloud Platform projects, enabling you to determine the performance and availability of the following services:

• Cloud Platform
• Cloud Platform Project
• Compute Engine (Instance, Disk, and Network)
• App Engine (Service, Version Flexible, Version Standard)
• Cloud Functions

N

Monitors the Google Cloud Platform projects, enabling you to determine the performance and availability of the Google Compute Engine service, including the following features:

• Automatic discovery and monitoring of the Compute Engine service
• Powerful filtering capabilities
• Simple configuration
• Report to access CPU utilization data

Monitors the performance and availability of the following Azure Services:

• Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• App Services
• Storage Accounts
• SQL Server and Database

N

Enables you to discover and monitor the following Azure Services:

• Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Scale Set

Monitors the performance and availability of the following AWS Services:

• Compute: Elastic Compute Cloud, Elastic Load Balancer, Lambda Function
• Storage: Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Block Storage, Storage Gateway
• Database: ElastiCache, Relational Database Service, DynamoDB, Redshift
• Networking and content delivery: API Gateway, CloudFront, Route 53
• Analytics: EMR
• Application integration: Simple Queue Service, Simple Notification Service
• Internet of Things: IoT
• Management tools: Custom Metric, Auto Scaling, OpsWorks

N